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School: Dromlachan

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Sunnagh More, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Peadar Mac Giolla Choinnigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0221, Page 349

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  1. Some Fairy Stories and Personal Experiences Still Common in this Locality - Loch na mBan (continued)

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    but the strange thing was that they couldn't see anybody. The crowd passed by and went down towards the lough, and they heard a woman scream and voices shouted three times "She's a drowning". They were real afraid then but they said they'd bring the stone if all the devils in the country came at them. So they started and they heard nothing more and brought the stone home. The next morning they were telling their mother about their experience the night before, and she told them to leave back the stone, that they had no right to take it. They went out to bring back the stone. They left it in a cart house the night before, but what was their surprise to find when they went out that the stone was gone, and they never saw it afterwards.
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  2. Some Fairy Stories and Personal Experiences Still Common in this Locality

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    The following story has been told to me by several people who witnessed it. My father witnessed it, and Revd. Michael M Kiernan P.P. Gresford, New South Wales also witnessed it and told it to me the last time he was home in Ireland on holidays from Australia.
    It happened about 55 years ago on a Christmas morning. In those times people had to walk to mass as there were not many horses and cars and the by-roads were
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    P. Mac Giolla Choinnigh
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Revd Michael M. Kiernan
    Gender
    Male